[youtube YR6KuUqDF5A nolink] Moments after President Obama spoke to the nationWednesday night about the threat posed by the Islamic State, Sen. Ted Cruz told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that the administration’s strategy was insufficient. “The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has been characterized by photo-op foreign policy,” Cruz said. “What has been missing is a concrete military […]
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the Akron Roundtable Luncheon last month, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) questioned the importance of balancing the budget, asking, “Why is it so important to have a balanced budget?” “If you had a healthy budget, what would you do with it? Nobody can answer that question for me. Why is it so […]
The Internal Revenue Service, already under investigation for illegally targeting conservative and tea party groups, recently audited the conservative Breitbart News Network in a move that the company says was politically motivated. .@SenTedCruz called the audit of Breitbart News Network ‘a gross abuse of power.’ The IRS sought the company’s financial records from 2012, Fox […]
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) tells FOX6 Milwaukee that she will be “saving my pennies” to pay her $691 dollar disorderly conduct fine. Moore was arrested in a Milwaukee protest Thursday involving fast food workers who are demanding a minimum wage of $15 per hour. “I’ll be saving my pennies to pay this $691 […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has developed detailed maps of waters located throughout the country. These waters include, according to the maps, ephemeral streams that flow only in response to precipitation events and intermittent streams that contain water for only part of the year. In light of the EPA’s proposed “waters of the U.S.” rule that […]
DULUTH, Minn.—All one needs to do to get a clue about the scope of this city’s street repair problem is log on to the local government website. In recent days, people who clicked on the “Duluth Progress” tab to view a list of street-improvement projects ran into a “404” error message on the face of a […]
A Texas lawmaker says if President Obama were to try to revamp immigration law on his own, it would change the course of November’s midterm elections and effectively hand-deliver control of the Senate to Republicans. There has to be checks and balances against a president who is overreaching, says @RepKevinBrady In an interview with The […]
The Daily Caller has obtained an email that provides more stark evidence of the liberal bias of Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the heart of the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and other conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status. Although Lerner was hypersensitive about political activity by conservatives, she appears to have […]
Over the most recent decade for which data are available (2001–2011), the overall U.S. abortion rate, calculated as the annual number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44), has dropped, continuing a trend that first appeared in 1980. The decline has been steeper since 1990, with a brief plateau in the […]
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